The Marine Science (B.S.) program at ESU provides students with hands-on, personalized instruction in marine science and extensive field experience in marine ecosystems.
ESU’s Marine Science Program offers small class sizes, qualified and experienced faculty, and state-of-the-art field and laboratory equipment, including a new aquaculture facility on the ESU campus.
Students in this program have many opportunities for gaining hands-on experience in marine science and they take marine science field courses at the Chincoteague Bay Field Station in Wallops Island, VA.
Why ESU?
- ESU Biology courses are taught by faculty members who all have doctoral degrees in biology and who provide personal attention to our students.
- College Values Online named East Stroudsburg University one of the top schools in the nation to study marine science.
- ESU is a member of the Marine Science Consortium, located at Wallops Island, Virginia, where Marine Science students take summer field courses and conduct research.
- ESU has a new aquaculture facility on campus that is used for teaching and student research.
- ESU students have many opportunities for undergraduate research in marine science.
What You'll Learn
Students in the Marine Science program learn to capture and identify common marine
organisms.
They also learn to care for freshwater and saltwater aquaria and treat fish diseases.
Students in this program will learn to use oceanographic equipment to carry out experiments and analyze data, and to give presentations on marine science to both scientific and general audiences.
Our Marine Science program and ESU provide major funding to support the Marine Science Consortium, located at Wallops Island, Virginia where students enrolled in the Marine Science major take summer courses and conduct research projects.
Career Opportunities
A degree in Marine Science from ESU prepares students for opportunities in fisheries biology, marine conservation, aquarium management, consulting, and research in government and private laboratories. Many Marine Science students also go on to graduate school.
It also prepares them to pursue advanced degrees in marine biology and oceanography.
Our alumni earn positions in:
Leah is currently a second-year Ph.D. student at Kitasato University in Tokyo, Japan. Her doctoral work uses remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) to survey deep-sea fishes in areas of undersea mining interest, and she is developing a machine learning algorithm to identify fishes from still images and video.
Leah Bergman ’19 M'20
B.S. Marine Science and M.S. Biology
Career Development at ESU
We'll help you launch your career. Support services are available through the ESU Career Development Center. The center offers a variety of internship opportunities, career planning, and employment services to all ESU students and alumni.
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